Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilliganis an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth28 November 1936
CountryUnited States of America
mother children couple
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.
voice people said
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
differences determined gender
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
men self vocabulary
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation ...
hurt justice care
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.
spring rain love-life
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
powerful men feminine
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
lying responsibility voice
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
adam among bound eve goes shows trouble woman
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve -a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble
became becoming books-and-reading brought discovered focus kinds moved otherwise people public relationship response whom
I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me.